Cover Band Confidential's Podcast (Music Business, Gigging Tips & Making Money as a Musician)

Celebrate our hundredth episode with a couple VERY special guests! We're extremely proud to have Dave Hamilton and Paul Kent from the Gig Gab Podcast join us! Updates on reopening (or is it?) from around the US, then a great conversation about leaving one musical situation, and finding another.

After a relative scarcity of topics, ya bois are back with some things to discuss. On the docket: Cancelling our own gigs, Reverb fees on the climb, Masks and other Merch.... AND MORE!

Adam's abandoned us for warmer climes, so Mike's back in the saddle for another go-round! This week: What it looks like to claw your way out of the emotional the pit, and the big WHY of why we do all this anyway.

Ya boys are back to talk about how the focus and limitation of our time drives us to think in new and creative ways. Dan discusses his plan for upcoming gigs for both his projects. Adam recaps a recent acoustic night and plans for Big Family Fun for the next couple weeks.

Things are opening back up, apparently! So what does that look like for us? What do we need to re-learn, what have we retained, and what opportunity is there to re-think? Including the current thoughts about refreshing the set list.

Is this normal that we're getting back to? Who knows! But something is happening, and we're here for it. The boys recap their acoustic nights-out of the last few weeks, do the required chit-chat about how weird things are now, then mostly talk gear.

The world's a mess. So we do what we do when the world's a mess: Bring in Mike Schulte from The Pork Tornadoes to confront reality for a few minutes, and then to talk about everything BUT what's bringing us all down. Among the topics for this sprawling distractioncast is: Dan's gig, Craft beer, Social (distancing) Media, Haircuts, and Back to the Future.

As the world begins to open up, we confront what that means for musicians. First off: everyone gets to have their own assessment of the risk and reward and decision-making around that. Here we explore ours.

In this week's episode we interview Jordan Olds aka Gwarsenio Hall. Jordan is a musician and comedian who hosts a youtube series called "Two Minutes to Late Night". In this interview we discuss Van Halen, how he approaches covering songs on his show, and Ice Cream Men. Thank you so much for tuning in to our podcast. If you want to help us be sure to share us with your friends! Follow us on social...

What else are you going to do with no gigs to play? We talked about it. We had lofty ideas about it. Now it's time to actually get down to it. What actions are you going to take to make you, your band, and your brand stronger, tighter, faster, and better coming out of this mess?

This week, Adam's found time to record a tune with his friends, and Dan's found a Reddit post that bugged him. So let's talk about that!

Here we are on the ultimate gig hunt. Lock down has us all live streaming if anything. But some of us have governors who insist we're going back to normal. So.... What does "normal" even mean for musicians after all this?

The boys lay down another livestream-hybrid podcast, and MIGHT someday get okay at it. Don't mind the echo on Adam's mic in the first few seconds, we got to the bottom of that super quick. NOW! What else are you going to talk about when your whole gigging life is on hold? GEAR, obviously! New mics, new mic stands, new Helix firmware, new preamps.... All super exciting things to own when you can't...

The guys return to form: none of that "this is the audio from a thing you really had to be there for" nonsense. In this episode we catch up on the happenings of two playas who can't play, and talk about some ways to handle the events of our current world--mentally, emotionally, and socially.

Podcast listenership globally is in the tank now that nobody's commuting or going to the gym. Our numbers are no exception. And you know what that means? A super low-effort episode from ya boys! With the help of longtime listeners and friends Paul Schuh and Ben Ivey, we have a Zoom chat about stuff, and you can listen in. Enjoy it or something!

You saw it live, maybe. Now hear it not-live! The times being what they are, more and more performers are turning to live-streaming to make ends meet. In this episode we disgorge what your humble hosts have learned about livestreaming AND in burst of irrepressible meta-ness, we do it WHILE livestreaming! Any reference to things you can see, or any visual aspects of this presentation were entirely...

Our guest this week, vocal coach Jamie Vendera, is probably most well known for shattering a wine glass using only his voice on an episode of Mythbusters.  He has worked with bands like Dream Theater, I Prevail and Thriving Ivory. The author of books like “Raise Your Voice” and “Mind Over Music,” and the host of the “Sing Better Fast” Podcast. You can reach Jaime at: https://venderavocalacademy.co...

Your boys take ten minutes to gripe, vent, and bitch about what's on everyone's mind right now. THEN we spend the rest of the episode engaging in delightful, plague-free chit chat with pod amigo Mike Schulte of The Pork Tornadoes! Is it all relevant band topics? Not on your life! Does it matter? Not in the slightest! Your sponsors and ours: Chauvet DJ. Could there BE a better time to visit http://...

And here we thought we said everything there was to say about it last week! COVID-19 has forced the cancellation of so very many things. At this point, there's no speculation, and there's definitely no fighting it: it's here and it's impacting us. So what to do? Use your time for your maximum benefit. This episode brought to you by the virus-free geniuses at http://chauvetdj.com

Folks, this episode is so topical you can hear us coughing. COVID-19 is upon us, maybe?, and the fear, uncertainty, and doubt is rippling through the events industry. So how does a band person cope? The same way you do any sort of risk--thinking ahead, preparedness, and value maximization. Our sponsor as ever-so-always is the lustrous CHAUVET DJ. Learn at http://chauvetdj.com http://Facebook.com/c...

In this episode we get a peek into the Johnson household, a discussion about what it takes to feel out a new room, and a dramatic reading of the band gig scam-baiting of the century. This episode is SO MUCH BROUGHT TO YOU by our compatriots at http://chauvetdj.com

Adam regales us with the story of a loose power plug, and Dan recounts his adventures with the plague. Brought to you by our fine feathered friends at http://chauvetdj.com

On this (half) episode Adam and his band talk a bit about how they ended up in the band, their favorite things about playing with Members Only and general green room shenanigans.

The realities of Your Fine Hosts' schedules this week call for two microsodes instead of one episode! In Episode A for the week, Dan soliloquizes on the subject of leverage: how to use what you got to maximize what you get.

That's right it's the second week of February and you get two! two! two episodes in one week! First a recap of Adam's exciting gear week. Then a pair of Internet-inspired topics. Gig bidding sites: Sucky or super? Then, whose job IS it to market a gig? This episode brought to you by the stage-lighting solution-providers at http://chauvetdj.com